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The Visitors Book (2015) is a collection of four ghost stories by Sophie Hannah, a British author and poet.[1][2] Published by Sort of Books, the original edition's dimensions are comparatively small, and the pages have wide margins; it is stylized to appear like an actual visitors book - in keeping with the first, nominal story in the collection - with the inside cover and first page providing columns for names, addresses, comments, etc.
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First editiong | |
| Author | Sophie Hannah |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Ghost stories |
| Published | October 22, 2015, Sort of Books |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 96 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1908745525 |
| Preceded by | Something Untoward: Six Tales of Domestic Terror |
In promoting the book, Hannah described how the inspiration for the nominal story came from an incident where, visiting a friend at her home, she was asked to sign a visitors book, a request she found strange given the everyday surroundings.[3]
A young woman's boyfriend calls her a snob when she questions the validity of him owning a visitors book, as he lives in an average terraced house. Flicking through the book, the comments left don't seem to match the surroundings.
After holding a birthday party for her son in the family's new house, an exhausted mother is preparing to relax when she notices that one child still hasn't been picked up.
A woman is stunned when, stopping her car at a red light, she sees what she knows against logic to be a ghost. Relating the story to her incredulous partner, she's prepared to dismiss the experience when she sees another ghost.
Waiting outside school gates to collect her daughter, a woman is approached by a mother who laughs and bemoans the other mothers with her. The conversation draws the woman into a web of cruelty and hatred.
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